Jeanette Ashe

Dr. Jeanette Ashe holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, teaches politics at Douglas College, and is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership. Her areas of focus include political recruitment, political parties, political representation, and gender and politics. She advises parliaments, governments, parties, and non-governmental organisations on gender- and diversity-sensitive parliaments, gender equity policy, and democratic reform. Recent publications include her book Political Candidate Selection: Who Wins, Who Loses and Under-representation in the UK (Routledge) as well as Feministing: Lessons from Bill C-237 – The Candidate Gender Equity Act 247, The Implementation of Equality-Based Candidate Selection Decisions in the British Labour and Conservative Parties, Gender Sensitising Parliament: A Seven-Step Field Guide, Canada’s Political Parties: Gatekeepers to Parliament, Gender Sensitivity Under Trudeau: Facebook Feminism or Real Change? Her other publications can be found in journals such as the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, British Politics, and the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.